Richmond Fixes One AFLW Problem and Another Pops Up. What Is Jarrad Donders Trying to Make Non-Negotiable?
Four games into Jarrad Donders’ first season, Richmond has already shown several pieces of better football. The awkward part is that they have not always appeared together. One area improves, another slips, and the next week can present a different problem again.
That is not surprising after a two-win season, an external review, a coaching change, new roles and a new game model. Volatility belongs in a rebuild. But eventually a team needs a floor — the parts of its football that remain recognisable even when the result, opponent or personnel changes.
The question Tiger supporters should be asking is simple: What is Donders trying to make non-negotiable — and how will we know when those behaviours have become Richmond’s normal rather than another encouraging one-week improvement?
The full feature goes underneath the 2–2 record and examines the pattern across Richmond’s first month without giving the answer away here. The puzzle is not whether the Tigers have improved somewhere. It is which improvements are meant to survive together.
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